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Welcome to the Tigers Oleg Markov
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Welcome to Tigerland, Johnny, have a great career with the might Yellow and Black
for the younger PRE-ers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Mrakov
for the younger PRE-ers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Mrakov
Just watching the AFL Draft Combine which Foxtel showed last month (I recorded it) and the interesting fact is that in the Goalkicking Test, Markov got a perfect score of 30/30 along with Gresham, O'Kearney (wasn't drafted) and Oliver. The kid is a sharpshooter.
From Wiki...
The usual pronunciation of Oleg in English is based on the transliteration of the Cyrillic alphabet, and hides three combined quirks of spoken (as opposed to written) Russian:
1.The stress is on the second syllable. In spoken Russian, the initial short unstressed 'O' is pronounced 'A' as in 'about', like 'Al-ég': however...
2.Written Russian 'e' is pronounced 'ye' as in 'yeti', like 'Al-yég': however...
3.A written final 'г' (hard g as in 'gun') is pronounced 'k', with the correct result 'Al-yék'.
Thus, rather than the typically mangled anglophone mess of 'Oh-leg', the proper pronunciation of Oleg in English most closely resembles the name Alec.
The usual pronunciation of Oleg in English is based on the transliteration of the Cyrillic alphabet, and hides three combined quirks of spoken (as opposed to written) Russian:
1.The stress is on the second syllable. In spoken Russian, the initial short unstressed 'O' is pronounced 'A' as in 'about', like 'Al-ég': however...
2.Written Russian 'e' is pronounced 'ye' as in 'yeti', like 'Al-yég': however...
3.A written final 'г' (hard g as in 'gun') is pronounced 'k', with the correct result 'Al-yék'.
Thus, rather than the typically mangled anglophone mess of 'Oh-leg', the proper pronunciation of Oleg in English most closely resembles the name Alec.
LeeToRainesToRoach said:
Google translate is hopeless. Didn't the meerkat ad pronounce it as 'Or-leg' ?
